User blog comment:Llamao/Embrace of the Viper/@comment-3474228-20110817215633

The Dirgecaller's crushed body rolls over, its eyes staring up unseeing, another addition to the littering of dead bodies on the sand

The outraged scream of Lance reaches Garond's ears. As he turns around, Lance's spear comes flying out of the air and had he not jumped, it would have went straight into his behind. He picks the spear up and continues running as Lance is absorbed back into the battle.

Looking up for the first time, he cannot mistake the face of Ferus Haraldr, whom he had thought he had driven out from the area. He curses and turns back, heading back to his own soldiers, but he is tired from running all the way there and his fight with the stripehound.